West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-03-03

, meaning and manifestations when does the
! Biblo say IS the bost time 10 rononti Now
] Whom docs tho Bible say that God will for
4 givel Now. When docs Cod cav is tho only
/ safe time ~ attend % tho matters Of tho souli
/ Now. But that word "Now" rnelts away as
! easily as n snowflake in tho evening rain
4 Whore is the now Of tho dead OF last year :
I tho "noyvn OF the dead OF last month"; tho
nov ~ tho deal of last week. the 'nown Of
I tho dead Of Yesterday limo picked Il
| up I'm its be1k and few away withit Swan
/ merriam and other naturalists tell W. there
are Insects which within the space OF one
! minute arc born. fulfill their mission. ccle-
| brato their nupta's AMI die: but this won
dcrful now is more short lived than they
~ IS a fash, stroke, glance It's cradle IS
its grave. IL men catch IL az all IL is
with quick clutch. Millions Of men hnvo
lost their soul immortal because they did not
understand tho momentum and tho pondcros
itY Of that ono word. All the strategic DOW
crs OF hell arc exerted i'm irving IN subtract
/ from the energy and emphasis OF that word
Ihcy say IL is only a word OF three letters
whil" there is a better word OF eight letters
Ito morrow They sny: Throw away
that small word and take this other grand
ono; and 50 men say: "Givc us tomorrow
and take away from ms now and between
those two words IS the Appian WAY Of death
and a great multitude throng that road
loStiinS and clbowi22 cach other. hastening
on swiftcr and swiftcr 30 die For how mucn
would YOU walk tho edge of tho roof OF your
housei For how much would YOU come out on
the most dangerous peak Of the Matterhorn
( and wave your Cnpt You say: "No money
could induce me 20 do IL. And vet you stand
, today with one foot on a crumbliug moment
and the other fo,.t lifted, not knowing where
you will put 10 down, while the distance be-
tween you and the bottom Of the depth be-
meath YOU no plummct can measure no nrith.
meilc calculate no wing Of lightning cleave
And yet the Bible tells us that unless "A
man has a new heart lac cannot get into
heaven; 0nd some of You are not seeking for
that new heart I'm Mexico, sometimes the
ground suddenly opens, and man standing
near the gap can see down an appalling dis
lance But O! If today, at Your feet. there
should open the chasms of the lost world how
you would fling yourself back and bold the
pew, and cry: God save mc-nowl now!
uowl"
greet you today, my brother, in the very
gate of eternity. Some OF us NAV live n
longer and some of us may live n shorter
time; but, at the longest, life Is so short that
| feel we all stand ON the doorsil of the great
future. The next step-Hl the angels OF God
cannot undo the consequences. win your ext
from this life bo rising or q fallingi
4 Tho righteous go up. Tho Saviour helps
them. Minlstcring spirits meet them. The
doors of Paradise open 10 receive them I-pl
up. upl Oh, what grand thing it is 10 die
with strong faith i'm God, like that which
StonewGll Jackson had, when, i'm his expiring
momen ts, no said Let MS cross over the
river, and lie down under the shade But
to leave this world unprcparcdlv is
falling-fallng from God falling from
hope, falling from peace, falling from
heaven-swiitly falling, wildly falling
FOR ever falling So il was with ono who had
been eminent for his intelligence but who had
omitted all preparation for the future world
and had come down 10 hi, last hour He said
20 his wife, seated by the bedside: " O, don't
talk 10 me about Dain: 1t is the mind woman
It tne mmdl or all tine years of
my life, | never lived one minute for
heaven. II is awfully dark here no wills
pcred. 1T is awfully dark. | seem TO stand
on the slippery edge of great gulf. ] shall
tail! l am falling" And with "A Shrek as
when man tumbeS over a preCiwCe, he OK
pired. Wise for this world about all tho mat
ters of his immortal soul he was, his life long
playing the fool
viii take the case Of some one in the
building to-day and ask YOU what YOU think
about that case He has been all his life amid
Bibles and churches, so that he knows his
duty. Christ has offered TO do all for that
man that Divine Savior can offer TO do for
dying soul Heaven has been offered
him, yea, been pushed upon him, and vet he
has not accepted IL, and to-day he sits de-
hberately allowing his chances for life 10 90
away from him. What do you say Of that
onei "HaluCinatedn saws one: "Nonoma-
niacai,' saws another; playing the fool - saws
another. Oh, how many there are taking
iust that position! There IS such thing as
pyromania, an insanity which dispOSes one to
destroy buildings by fire. but who would have
thought that there was n pyrOmaIua OF the
immortal nature and that any one could DO
so struck through with that insanity as TO
have desire and disposition 10 consume the
soult
Awake, mani awake womanl from the
phantasia, real or affected. Take Christ.
Escape for eternity. Just SEQ what has been
done for you. Lift the thorny cap from the
brow of Jesus, and see the price that was paid
for your liberation. Look at the side, and
see where the spear wentin and moved round
and round, amid broken arteries, the blood
rushing forth in awful sacrifice for
your sins. O, wrap those bare and mutilated
feet Of the dying Lord in your womanly lap,
for they were torn in hard tramp for your
soul o. for tears TO weep over this lacera-
ton OF Christ! O. for n broken heart TO
worship Html -, Tor an OmnipOuenJ impulse
strong enough TO throw this whole audience
down at the feet of crucifed and risen
Jesus! We must repent We must
believe. We must be saved / SQnnot con-
sent 90 have you lose your souls. como with
me, aud as I'm the summer time we 90 down
70 the beach and battle in the waters so to-
day let us join hands and wade down into the
summary sea of Gods forgiveness. Roll
over us tides Of everlasting love, roll over
u.s. Dear Lord, We knock at the door OF
mercy, not as the demented knock not
know ing what they want but knocking at the
door OF mercy, because we want TO come in,
while others run their meaningless hands up
and down the panels, and scrabble at the gate
In the presence OF God, and men, and angels
and devils. playing the fool